London Government Act 1963

PART I The Rating and Valuation Act 1925

1 For section 1 (1) there shall be substituted—

“(1) The council of every county borough, London borough and county district shall be the rating authority for the borough or district, and the rating authority—

(a) for the City of London shall be the Common Council; and

(b) for the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be the Sub-Treasurer and the Under-Treasurer thereof respectively,

and no authority or person other than the rating authority shall have power to make or levy any rate within any rating area.”

2 (1) The provisions of section 2 other than subsections (4) and (7) shall not apply to the City or the Temples.

(2) In section 2 (6), after the words "rating authority" there shall be inserted the words " in the case of the council of a London borough as part of the general rate and in any other case ",

3 (1) Section 4 (1) shall not apply to the City.

(2) At the end of section 4 (4) there shall be added—

“Provided that, in relation to any rate to which section 177 of the City of London Sewers Act 1848 (which relates to the rating of empty houses in the City of London) applies, this subsection shall have effect subject to the provisions of the said section 177, and any amount in respect of any such rate which any person is required by that section to pay or allow in respect of any period during which a hereditament is unoccupied shall be allowed to the rating authority in computing any sum which that person is entitled to recover from the authority in respect of that hereditament under this subsection.”

4 Sections 6, 7 and 8 shall not apply to the City.

5 (1) Section 9 (1) shall not apply to Greater London.

(2) Section 9 (2) to (5) shall apply in relation to Greater London as if the Greater London Council were the council of a county.

(3) In the application of section 9 (2) (b) to the City, for references to the general rate there shall be substituted references to the poor rate.

(4) Section 9 (3) shall apply to Greater London as if for the reference to the commencement of the said Act of 1925 there were substituted a reference to 31st March 1965.

6 Section 10 (1) and (2) shall not apply to the City or the Temples.

7 In the application of section 11 to the Temples, for any reference to a resolution of the rating authority there shall be substituted a reference to an order of the rating authority.

8 Section 12 shall not apply to the Temples.

9 In the application of section 21 (1) to Greater London, the words " or other area which is liable to be charged separately in respect of any expenses " (being words inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Rating and Valuation Act 1961) shall be omitted.

10 Section 54 (1) shall not apply to the City or the Temples, but—

(a) the accounts of the Common Council so far as they relate to the poor rate levied in the City ; and

(b) the accounts of the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple or the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple so far as they relate to any rate in the nature of a general rate levied in the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple, as the case may be,

shall be subject to audit by a district auditor under Part X of the Local Government Act 1933.

11 In section 64, paragraphs (b) to (e) of subsection (1), the proviso to subsection (1), and subsection (2) shall not apply to an inner London borough, the City or the Temples.

12 In section 68 (1), in the definition of "urban rating area", for the words " or an urban district" there shall be substituted the words " non-county borough or urban district or a rating area in Greater London ",

13 In section 68, at the end there shall be added—

“(5) Subsection (4) of this section shall not apply to Greater London, but any reference to a parish in this or any other Act, whether passed before or after this Act, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed in relation to Greater London as a reference to a rating area and, in the case of an enactment relating to rating or valuation, as including a reference to any part of a rating area which is subject (otherwise than in respect of a garden or square or by reason of any provision of the City of London (Tithes and Rates) Act 1910 or the City of London (Tithes) Act 1947) to separate or differential rating.”